All right, so here I am reviewing the composition.…Love the smoke, but it's possible we have a little bit too much of a good thing going on.…After all, the smoke is doing a pretty good job of obscuring every bit of those…cable-like I-beam extrusions.…So in this final exercise, we're going to back off the effect using a knockout…layer, and then we'll also add an adjustment layer to enhance the contrast.…I've saved my changes as Painted in smoke .psd, found inside the 03_cables folder.…I'm going to scroll up to the top of the Layers panel and turn that letters…layer back on, just so that we have a sense of the overall composition.…

Make sure that the smoke layer is selected.…Now, normally I'd go ahead and create a gradient inside of the layer mask, but we…spent so much time getting that layer mask exactly right that I don't want to…take a chance of hurting it.…So we're going to add a knockout layer instead. And as you may recall,…knockout layers require a fair amount of set up, so let's get everything…

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10/4/2011

In this final installment of Photoshop CS5 Extended One-on-One, Deke McClelland creates a total of seven 3D type effects from scratch. This project-based course shows how to create and modify 3D type, craft hand-drawn effects, and design complex character extrusions. The course also explains how to color-correct and post-process 3D type in Camera RAW.